There are four key narratives that dominate the resource sector, in particular the junior resource sector.

Junior mining sector equities in the gold space, as proxied for by the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF, have outperformed gold since the June Cambridge House conference.

Despite a relatively low gold price, 2014 marked a banner year for the Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek.

Taylor urges investors to stay as liquid as possible so they can invest in undervalued companies poised to explode when the value of gold is reasserted.

In an interview, PI Financial mining analyst Christos Doulis on how to survive the lower-priced gold environment.

It's never too late to find a new way to evaluate mining companies, and Jeff Desjardins and James Fraser of Tickerscores.com have developed one based on over 20 different criteria.